10 September, 2015

Trump et al: A pure sample of neoliberal barbarism

by system
failure

Vangelis
Meimarakis is the new leader of the Right-wing party New Democracy in
Greece. Before Alexis Tsipras resign to declare snap elections,
Meimarakis called him "little liar" in an arrogant style.
Imagine what would happen if Tsipras would use such a language
against any Greek prime minister. The mainstream media would have simply
crucify him. It's not appropriate for the Leftist Tsipras to speak in
such manner. However, the "tough guy" neoliberal Meimarakis
has all the right to do it. It's justifiable. The mainstream media
rushed to excuse his unacceptable behaviour and language through the
shallow, if not stupid, argument "that's his character".

On the other
side of the Atlantic, the eccentric billionaire, Donald Trump, is
attacking on everyone, even on his internal Republican opponents,
with words like "losers". Through an even more cynical
manner, he attacks on the Mexican immigrants, saying that they are
drug dealers and rapists. The "made in USA" hypocrisy is
skyrocketing, as the businesses of CIA with the drug cartels all over
Latin America is well known, as well as, the extreme exploitation of
the immigrants by the US big capital, to which Trump belongs.

On the other
hand, Meimarakis attacks on the civil servants who have been re-hired
by the SYRIZA government, characterising them as "useless".
He knows that they are lost votes because these people were fired by
the Samaras-Venizelos administration, under the orders of Greece's
creditors. Therefore, Meimarakis is betting on the sensitive spot of
the Right-wing middle class voters who blame the public servants for
Greece's situation since the beginning of the crisis. That's because
they were brainwashed by the mainstream media who declared war on
civil servants, in order to hide the huge responsibilities of the
bankers, the local oligarchs and their political puppets who governed
Greece for forty years. A triangle of total corruption.

The rhetoric
of extreme cynicism used by Trump and Meimarakis, has a common
origin. It goes back to the Thatcherian cynicism and the division of
people between “capable” and “useless”. To the demonization
of state, as it remains the last defence mechanism against the
abolition of human rights.

But it's
also a cynicism which, little later, has been transformed into an
illusion of free expression. The false prosperity that the
neoliberalism offered in previous decades, especially since early
90s, through the bubble economies, has fed an apolitical culture and
a dominant cynicism, against whoever would not be willing to admit
this "remarkable" prosperity of the West. Against anyone
who insisted to protest for the imperialistic wars even inside
European soil. Against anyone who was not enjoying his "freedom"
through the slavery of uninterrupted consumption and gambling in the
stock markets.

The
inability of the political power to handle effectively the
immigration problem, as well as, the xenophobia grown by the
mainstream media propaganda, has offered an opportunity to the
far-Right and the nationalists to return in the political scene.
Therefore, the representatives of the neoliberalism, are using the
bequest of this cynicism to attack on everyone: immigrants, poor,
"useless", or, "losers", if you like. It appears
that it's quite effective. Cameron has won the elections using far-Right rhetoric and now continues to "sweep"
the British society with new austerity measures. You know, that kind
of measures which can produce more "useless", or, "losers",
according to the "remarkable" neoliberal perception. Trump
is currently winning in all polls.

The famous
comedian, Jon Stewart, places himself in Trump's position for a while
and says: "I don't like people you get cancer". Stewart
wants to highlight Trump's barbaric cynicism. Well, it appears that
neither the humor is able to defeat Trump's popularity, at least for
the moment.

Eventually,
the only difference between Meimarakis and Trump, is that the first,
represents another puppet of the big capital, while the second, comes
straight from it. Americans are always pioneers. It has started with
Mitt Romney and now it's
Trump's turn. It's time for the "useless" politicians to
step away, so that billionaires to come in the front line.

Neoliberalism
drops the final big leaf: Yes, we are the one percent who have
exploited you and impoverished you, and we want to govern so that to
make sure that you will never rise up ..